The Girl Who Silenced the World for Six Minutes

Sometimes it takes a child to wake us up to our complacency and remind us to use a bit of common sense and stop playing the artificial roles of nationalistic, capitalistic, profit-driven, competitive corporate whores, as if our actions don't have consequences that affect everyone.

In this video, Severn Cullis-Suzuki, a young girl addressing the United Nations delivers a very powerful speech, not simply pleading that we behave in more socially responsible ways, but demanding that we stop fucking things up...